smin سمين
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“smin” (سمين) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning fat, well-fattened (animal, meat).
Meanings
- fat, well-fattened (animal, meat)
- plump (person)
Usage
The adjective smin is used mainly for animals and meat. It describes a well-fattened sheep or fatty meat, which is often a good thing, notably for the Eid sheep: "had lhawli smin". The feminine is smina and the plural is sman. For a person, ghlid is more commonly used. Said of someone, smin can sound colloquial or be taken as a remark about their weight. Pitfall: in darija, this word does not have the pejorative connotation that "fat" can have when applied to an animal.
Example
هاد الحولي سمين بزاف
had l7awli smin bzzaf
“This sheep is very fat.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “smin” but also “smine” and “sman”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “smin” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “fat, heavyset”; “fatty (meat)”: smin in Tunisian.